A booklet on legislation affecting the Office of Education is presented. It is divided into two parts. The first is a summary of pertinent legislation arranged by title and section. The second presents a brief description of the assistance or program offered, who may apply and how funds are disbursed. Program categories include undergraduate…

Categories of effective and ineffective behavior in regard to Goal Seven of the Quality Education Program (regarding creativity) are listed. Both the rationales for areas of effective student behavior and the categories of teacher strategies are also included. (See TM 001 375 for project description.) (MS)

Specifications developed to assist in planning a new administrative office are contained in this report for each of the following activities: central direction and management, instructional affairs, business affairs, supportive services, public accommodation, and employee accommodation. Of particular importance in determining the specifications…

Investigated were the effects of two types of stimuli, preferred and non-preferred, on the free recall and clustering of 16 moderately and severely retarded children (mean IQ = 39.12, mean CA = 10.84 years) who were enrolled in public schools. An empirical determination was made as to whether to classify a particular conceptual category of stimuli…

Effects of assignment to a regular classroom, to a resource room, or to a remedial reading group were examined in a study of gains in reading achievement of 49 elementary school boys. Measures used included the Slosson Intelligence Test, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, the Primary Mental Abilities Vocabulary subtest, and the…

Documenting the development of monographs on the rural community in Poland, this paper discusses: (1) development of monographic community studies from the beginning of the 19th century to the contemporary period (ethnographic, socioeconomic, socio-historical, economic, historical-sociological, and sociological monographs); (2) the present state…

Taking an ethnomethodological perspective, this paper addresses itself to the central question of how meanings are constructed by members to create social reality. Here, the interest lies in explicating the interpretive procedures used by the classroom teacher in constructing pupil categorizations. As a specialist, the teacher is expected to be…

A verbal concept-learning task permitting the externalizing and quantifying of learning behavior and 16 ability tests were administered to female graduate students. Data were analyzed by alpha factor analysis and incomplete image analysis. Six alpha factors and 12 image factors were extracted and orthogonally rotated. Four areas of cognitive…

The survey was administered to high school seniors. Analysis supported 3 of the 4 hypothesized factors: Delay Avoidance (DA), Work Methods (WM), and Teacher Approval (TA). The Educational Acceptance (EA) factor was not supported. Implications for counseling are discussed. (Author/BJG)

A procedure is outlined by which all students, not just one spokesman, report back to the class on small group projects, thus increasing participation in class discussions. (SJL)

Discusses the concept of professionalization, two professionalism scales, a professionalism security typology, a Swedish survey that tested different ways of measuring professionalism, and occupational mobility, and research needs in this area. (GW)

This laboratory exercise integrates the topics of cell structure, classification of living organisms, and evolution. It is suitable for secondary or college biology courses and was used in an interdisciplinary science course for nonscience majors. (BB)

A two-part animism questionnaire was adminstered to 200 female undergraduates with extensive backgrounds in science. When students classified objects as "living" or "nonliving," 67 percent gave evidence of animistic thought. Yet when subjects identified statements which reflected their own definition of living, 66 percent…

Reported is a study that sought to develop a need-identification process that would identify the educational needs of practicing pharmacists, provide a field test, and determine if selected variables affect these needs. Taxonomies of educational objectives and need identification test forms for community and hospital pharmacists are appended. (JMD)